I have been trying to get my new satellite broadband to work, its on a latest Debian 7 system (7.11). Now the whole thing actual does work, and I have transferred I file over it, the problem is the ethernet link in this case eth1 keeps dropping down and then comming up almost immediately. The up timings vary from a few seconds to minutes, down time is always around 2 seconds. There is no info other then the timings in either dmesg or syslog. It appears the satellite connection stays up through all of this, so far I an only stop it by reseting the system, poff not helping. A look at the logs after the reset shows the ppp daemon shutting down the link during the reset. The motherboard is an ASUS X58 which is about 5 years old and has two ethernet RJ45 sockets on it, disabling the first one (eth0) had no effect. The error message from both dmesg and syslog is something like "sky2. link is down" link then comes straight back up. The only thing I an think of is to try say debian 8, that has a latter kernel, in case its a kernel issue. Any susgestions................ LIndsay